__A One problem facing atheists is that of perception among theists. Many theists are only hearing about atheism from prominent scientists and philosophers, basing their counter arguments on positions held by those particular atheists. While I agree with the ideas many of those scientists and philosophers espouse, I came to many of those ideas on my own and can express myself coherently on those matters, as is the case with many other common or garden atheists. I would like to make the fact…See More

The looming census has seen christian groups start a scare campaign.  They claim there are a million muslims in Australia, and that unless everyone ticks christian in the census question about religion, those muslims will build mosques everywhere and try to institute sharia law.  Given that muslims make up about one percent of the nation's population, this means either that the muslims are going to start an aggressive and successful campaign of conversion in the coming weeks, or that the…See More